Excalidraw Drive Sync

A little less saving. A little more sketching.

Your drawings,
a little closer to home.

Keep your Excalidraw drawings in your own Google Drive. A quiet little companion that saves as you draw, and helps you find your ideas again.

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Version 1.2.0: release notes and availability

  • Your own Drive
  • No ads or analytics
  • Free to use
A sketched violet paper plane flying toward a cloud with a check mark.
My next little idea Saved

Room for your next idea.

Right where you draw

Draw. Save. Find it again.

Everything lives beside Share on excalidraw.com.
No new workspace to learn.

Excalidraw showing the Moonseed garden drawing, a Saved 14:02 status pill, and the open Drive panel with Rename, Save as copy, New, pause auto-save and a searchable drawing list.
Your current drawing, and the rest of your ideas close by. Tap to see full size.

Three small steps

A happy home for your sketches.

01

Add the extension

Install from the Chrome Web Store, then open excalidraw.com. Reload if it was already open.

02

Connect your Drive

Open the pill beside Share and choose Sign in with Google. Your drawings go to your Excalidraw Projects folder.

03

Draw as usual

Auto-save starts on. Give your drawing a name, watch its status, and let your ideas take shape.

Follow the getting-started guide

A reassuring little check-in

Know what’s saved.

The pill shows the current drawing’s name
and a plain-language save state.

SavedUnsaved changesSaving…Not on Drive yet
The save-status pill beside Share names Moonseed garden and shows an orange dot with Unsaved changes above a hand-drawn garden plan.
A small pill keeps the current drawing and its save state in sight. Tap to see full size.

One drawing. One Drive file.

Rename keeps the same file. Save as copy gives an idea a fresh branch, with its own file.

Quiet, change-based auto-save

Changes save after a short pause, at most once a minute. Unchanged drawings don’t create extra versions. You can pause auto-save.

A pause when it matters

A little care for your work.

New and Open save your current drawing first, even with auto-save paused. An empty canvas or edits made elsewhere get a gentle question before you choose what to keep.

The in-panel Canvas is empty question offers Keep Drive file or Overwrite with empty canvas before replacing a saved drawing.
You choose what to keep when the canvas is empty. Tap to see full size.

Soft around the edges

At home in light and dark.

Excalidraw in dark mode with a violet-tinted current-drawing card, saved status, search field and Drive drawing list.
The panel follows Excalidraw’s theme. Tap to see full size.

Made to feel familiar

Soft violet surfaces, small controls, and a sketched pen-and-cloud mark. Your canvas stays the main event.

The compact Chrome toolbar popup shows the current Moonseed garden drawing, an Open in Excalidraw action and a searchable list of Drive drawings.
A quick way back from your Chrome toolbar. Tap to see full size.

Your drawings, a click away

Find a drawing in the searchable Drive list, or return to your current one from the compact toolbar popup.

Your ideas. Your Drive.

Just you, your sketches, and Google Drive.

Drawings travel directly to Google. Access is limited to files created by or authorized for this extension, with no developer server, ads or analytics.

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Make a little space for your ideas.

Design sketches, study notes, project plans. Keep them somewhere you can find them.

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